1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    und der AfD -, einen zusätzlichen Paragrafen 108f ("unzulässige Interessenwahrnehmung") ins Strafgesetzbuch aufzunehmen. Dessen Regeln gelten auch für Abgeordnete in Landtagen und im Europaparlament sowie für Mitglieder der parlamentarischen Versammlung einer internationalen Organisation. Die heutige Entscheidung gilt als Folge der sogenannten Maskenaffären während der Corona-Pandemie. Die...

  2. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    to Ukraine, the EU Parliament is now also pushing for Ukraine to be equipped. After Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Taurus rejection, criticism from other countries is increasing. Strasbourg. The European Parliament is pushing for the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. The country attacked by Russia needs “in particular highly developed air defense systems, cruise missiles with large...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    - not least because the ECB is also based there. The European Union's new anti-money laundering authority is to be located in Frankfurt am Main. In the evening, representatives of the EU states and the European Parliament voted in favor of the headquarters of the so-called Amla (Anti-Money Laundering Authority) in the Main metropolis, as the Belgian EU Council Presidency announced. [...] Fight against...

  4. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    According to the agreement, CO₂ emissions from coaches and trucks should be reduced by 2040 percent by 2019 compared to 90. The European Parliament still has to approve the agreement now agreed between the EU states... * Algeria | Hydrogen | Pipeline Germany and Algeria plan to set up hydrogen production - Green hydrogen pipeline from Algeria to southern Germany Berlin -...

  5. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    To guide alternatives, but ultimately not to take money away from them: those who emit particularly little CO₂ spend less on it than they receive in climate money... * Corruption | European Parliament | Immunity lawsuit dismissed: EU politician Kaili fails in EU court Former Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili is suspected of fraud and corruption. So...

  6. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    in Germany... December 25th EU Parliament | Corruption | Qatargate Qatargate or Moroccogate? The EU failure in the corruption scandal A year after large sums of cash were found in raids on the Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, all of the accused are at large again and Kaili has long been in and out of Parliament again. The Belgian investigation...

  7. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Kilograms of packaging waste. According to experts, without additional measures, the number could rise to more than 2030 kilograms by 200. The planned law is now entering negotiations with the European Parliament. * AfD supporters applaud right-wing extremist acts of violence Study: When Nazi terrorists kill, the AfD becomes stronger In Pirna, Saxony, the candidate from the firmly right-wing extremist AfD won...

  8. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    The electricity market in Europe is to be reformed, and the EU is also getting a uniform supply chain law. Negotiators from the EU states and the European Parliament agreed on this on Thursday morning. The law to restructure the electricity market is intended to better protect consumers in Europe from escalating electricity prices in the future. In addition to more stable prices, the innovations are intended to expand...

  9. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Essentially it's about wind turbines in forest areas. They had already been banned in Thuringia. But the Federal Constitutional Court overturned the regulation in November 2022... * Climate protection | European Parliament | Building renovation Building directive for climate protection EU waives the obligation to renovate “Grandma’s little house is safe”: The EU has agreed on binding requirements for energy efficiency also for...

  10. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    and to encourage political decision-makers to actively support Germany's accession to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. More than 650 German representatives in the European Parliament, the Bundestag and the state parliaments have already signed the ICAN parliamentary declaration for the ban on nuclear weapons... * Transport | Wissing | Mobility Wissing must have federal transport infrastructure plan...

  11. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    in drinking water On September 15th, the EU Commission will decide on the new approval of the herbicide glyphosate. But a study shows the risks of approval. BRUSSELS taz | The Greens in the European Parliament are warning against a new approval of glyphosate in the European Union. It would be “grossly negligent” if the EU Commission were to approve the controversial weed killer again, said the...

  12. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Wissing's immediate dismissal for “refusal to work”. “He would be fired immediately from any company for that,” said spokesman Terjung... * The Left | Carola Rackete | Gerhard Trabert | European Parliament It's a match - The Left and Carola Rackete With the support of the movements for climate justice and against racism in the European Parliament [...] At a press conference on Monday...

  13. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    is away from the Danish capital Copenhagen, the Danish government urged that the nuclear power plant be the first to be shut down as part of Sweden's nuclear phase-out... June 27th European Parliament | EPP Group | Renaturation law No agreement on renaturation: Showdown in Europe's climate protection One of the most important EU laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is in danger....

  14. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Fisheries that are very aggressively and openly trying to overturn the law. Unfortunately, they have also been receiving support from the conservative parties in the European Parliament for some time, especially from the EPP group headed by the CSU politician Manfred Weber. The EPP group, which includes Germany's CDU and CSU, threatened to...

  15. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    | EU Parliament Fight against greenwashing “Eco” should soon really be eco “Environmentally friendly”, “climate neutral”: There will soon be strict requirements for such green advertising promises. The European Parliament has approved the relevant requirements. Wherever it says “eco” on it, it should only say “eco” in the future. On Thursday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament approved stricter requirements for...

  16. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    The EU Parliament has tightened its lobbying rules for the European people's representatives. After the group leaders approved a plan by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, the European Parliament announced on Monday in Strasbourg that MEPs would not be allowed to lobby EU MEPs for six months after leaving the European Parliament. The reform...

  17. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    remain dangerous for 30 generations.” * Renewable Energy | Hydrogen | EU Directive EU aims for 000 percent renewable energies by 45 After two years of negotiations, the European Parliament, EU Commission and Council have agreed on new targets for renewable energies. By the end of this decade, 2030 percent of gross energy consumption in the EU is expected to come from renewable energies (RE)...

  18. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Nuclear power plants in Fukushima, Japan. The reactors are still burning after twelve years. [...] Have we learned from this catastrophe, asks the BUO. The European Commission and the European Parliament apparently do not. Otherwise they would not have classified nuclear energy as green energy in the taxonomy. Now the EU Commission also wants to classify hydrogen produced using nuclear energy as green...

  19. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    The Commission is presenting plans for a reduction target of 55%. Also out of concern that the Commission's planned offsetting of carbon sinks would weaken the climate targets, the European Parliament voted on October 7, 2020 to tighten the interim target to 60% reduction. On June 24, 2021, the parliament (with Bulgaria abstaining) passed the final version of the law with...

  20. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    of nuclear power via taxonomy and EDF nationalization It is no coincidence that France announces the complete nationalization of the ailing electricity supplier on the day on which greenwashing was prevailed in the European Parliament. One comment * France | Energy crisis Nuclear energy country France now needs more gas - and green electricity France's energy policy sovereignty...

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